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MedPage Today
The mass shooting in Las Vegas induced something like flashbacks for physicians elsewhere who treated victims of previous multiple-shooting tragedies, and for others it reinforced the necessity for drills and planning to cope with such events.
From a 32nd-floor room in the Mandalay Bay hotel, a man identified as Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire onto people attending an outdoor music festival, killing 50 and sending more than 400 to area hospitals with gunshot wounds and injuries from the resulting stampede, media reports indicated.
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Journal of Emergency Medical Services
There's no doubt that in healthcare the goal is to perform safely: safe to the provider, safe to the patient and safe to all those around us. This concept has been summarized into the term "patient safety."
Many of the common definitions of patient safety focus solely on the patient. Despite this focus on the patient, the role of the healthcare provider remains critical.
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KOKH-TV
Throughout the Clinical Skills Education and Testing Center at Oklahoma University you'll find mannequins that represent various medical conditions doctors may encounter.
The center has been slowly growing to add more of them to train more doctors and students at the hospital. Dr. Jason Lees is the general surgery residency program director at OU Medical and has been helping train students in the center since it opened.
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U.S. News & World Report
Most prospective medical school students set out to become physicians because they want to heal the sick, often forgetting that patients, young and old, sometimes die.
Death is a very real – and natural – part of medicine that you will not only face but also will need to learn how to handle. Before you start medical school, consider how you might care compassionately for a dying patient and how you will cope with the loss.
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ABC News
Hunter Allis is only 14 years old, but he has already helped to create his own video game available in the Apple App Store.
Hunter, of East Hampton, Connecticut, was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a rare congenital heart disease. He had three open heart surgeries before he was 3 years old and a fourth heart surgery at age 11.
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Healio
Simulated patient care interactions showed that the cuffs of physicians’ long-sleeved white coats could contribute to the transmission of pathogens, leading researchers to recommend short sleeves. Prior research has shown that physicians’ white coats are rarely cleaned and often contaminated. These findings have prompted a “bare below the elbows” dress code policy in the U.K.
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Award-winning Sentinel City® was designed by nurse educators for use in population health and other nursing courses. It provides students with simulated clinical hours through integrated Home and Family Support Assessments, nursing diagnosis and final care plan creation. It includes 17 complete assignments with AACN Essentials mapping and grading rubrics. Learn More!
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Mastery Learning is a form of competency-based medical education. Use of the model has been shown to improve patient care quality and lower health care costs. This five day hands on course will equip you with the skills to develop mastery learning curricula for procedures, communication and team based clinical skills.
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Scott E. Rupp
Is this news really any surprise? Wearables, the "healthcare" devices that might be past their prime in the consumer market — even if they are still relevant — are just not catching on.
New research suggests that people with more life satisfaction also are more likely to stick with the use of their wearable devices and the wellness programs these devices seem to promote. The new study, published in NEJM Catalyst, also looked at why other people give up.
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Sun Sentinel via Medical Xpress
The University of Miami's newest hospital has a six-bed emergency room, operating room, intensive care unit, a birthing suite and outpatient clinics. The only thing missing is patients.
Instead, nursing students get a realistic clinical experience using computerized mannequins and staff actors.
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South Florida Business Journal
The University of Miami already owns three hospitals, but its newest hospital isn’t designed to treat real patients.
The five-story, 41,000-square-foot Simulation Hospital was developed on its Coral Gables campus to train students with the UM School of Nursing and Health Studies. Many health education programs in South Florida have patient simulation rooms where students can practice providing care, but this is the largest by far.
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HealthDay via Medical Xpress
Communication-and-resolution program experiences are positive overall for a small majority of patients and families, but they report that hospitals rarely share information about preventing recurrences, according to a study published online Oct. 9 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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The Associated Press via WSYM-TV
A nonprofit health system in Grand Rapids, Michigan, had opened a new, 2,700-square-foot cardiac simulation and education center.
MLive reports the purpose of the Jacob and Lois Mol Cardiovascular Simulation Center at Spectrum Health is to simulate realistic procedures for structural heart, heart catheter and vascular surgical interventions.
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